Alex's Wake (51 page)

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Index

Abitur
,
52

Abramovicz, Zofia Grochowalska,
303

Adler, Rudolf,
244

Adorno, Theodor,
314

Agde concentration camp

     
Alex and Helmut leaving Montauban for,
189

     
Alex's letter requesting liberation from,
204–207

     
author's research on relatives in,
10

     
internment of Jews and other refugees,
201–203

     
living conditions,
203–204

     
memorial to people interned in,
208–209

     
status report by camp commandant,
207

Agency for the Rescue of Children (
Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants
, OSE),
138

Aix-en-Provence,
238

Aldenburg,
35
.
See also
Oldenburg

Alexander, Harry,
241
,
244

Algerian war,
192
,
223

Altes Gymnasium Oldenburg (AGO),
50–54
,
58–59
,
67–68
,
316

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (the Joint)

     
editorial on success of,
125–126

     
finding asylum for
St. Louis
passengers,
114–118

     
overseeing transfer of
St. Louis
passengers,
118–122

     
on suspension of exit visas for Jews (1942),
263

     
unresolved controversy regarding,
125–126

“Angel of Death,” reference to Josef Mengele,
289–290

anti-Semitism

     
in France,
150–153
,
208

     
history of Montauban and,
191–192

     
Nazi Party encouraging,
92

     
St. Louis
voyage and,
94–95

     
of Vichy government,
184–186

Appellation d'origine contrôlée
(AOC),
171–172

Arisierung
,
46

Arum,
131–132

Aryanization

     
of Jewish enterprises,
58–60

     
national violence and,
55–56

     
rise of Nazi Party,
46–47

     
of schools,
58–59

Auschwitz

     
author and wife's visit to,
299–302

     
deportation of Jews from Drancy camp to,
277

     
erasing sins of,
304

     
feelings of guilt about inability to save relatives,
308

     
Final Solution to Jewish Problem,
290

     
founding of camp,
287–288

     
in list of extermination camps,
291

     
living conditions,
288–289

     
murder of Gerda Philippsohn,
29

     
Nazi cover-up before Soviet advance,
295–296

Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum,
299

Auvergne,
171
,
173

Bach, Johann Christoph Friedrich,
16

Bach, Johann Sebastian,
283–285
,
304–305

Baker, Janet,
304

Banquet of Nations, The
,
267

Baranowski, Hermann,
57

Bar-le-Duc,
144–145

Bayer chemical, drug testing on camp inmates,
289

Beaudouin, Eugène,
275–276

Beckman, Theodor,
27–28

Behrens, Elkan Simon,
166
,
309
,
313

Behrens, Helen (wife of author's cousin),
312–313
,
315–324

Behrens, Johanna,
225

Behrens, Ludwig,
309
,
313

Behrens, Steven (author's cousin),
165–169
,
309–313
,
315–324

Behrens, Toni.
See
Goldschmidt, Toni (grandmother)

Belzec, in list of extermination camps,
291

Berenson, Lawrence,
125
,
127

Bibliothèque Municipale, Boulogne,
133–134
,
138–142

Birkenau (Auschwitz II),
291
,
294–297
,
302–303

Biscuits Poult,
188–189
,
196–197

Black Death,
213

Black Thursday (
Jeudi noir
),
263

Blanksma, Tjitse,
132

Blitzkrieg
,
181

Blum, Leon,
154
,
183

Bohny-Reiter, Friedel,
230

Borah, William,
180

Boschen, Elsa,
40

Boulez, Pierre,
171

Boulogne-sur-Mer

     
arrival of Jewish refugees from
St. Louis
,
134–138

     
author's journey and arrival in,
130–134

     
author's research in,
138–142

     
Bibliothèque Municipale,
133–134
,
138–142

Bousquet, René,
187–190
,
202
,
264
,
307

Boyer, Odette,
265

Boyken, Annemarie,
34–35

Brahms, Johann,
61
,
88–89

Breger, Lotte,
226

Breitman, Richard,
127–128

Bremen,
74–75

Bremer-Vulkan Shipyards,
77

Brzezinka extermination camp,
292

Buch, Friedrich,
83

Buchenwald concentration camp,
82
,
287

Bückeburg, Germany,
16–17
,
307

Buschmann, Georg,
21–22
,
27

Bussières, Amédeé,
117

C. H. Kori,
294

Camp d'Agde.
See
Agde, concentration camp

Camp de Rivesaltes.
See
Rivesaltes, concentration camp

Camp des Milles.
See
Les Milles, concentration camp

Camp du Martinet,
166–167

Campra, André,
175

Camus, Albert,
198

Canal du Midi,
201

Cantaloube, Joseph,
171

Carcassonne,
199

Carl von Ossietzky University,
32–33

Casals, Pablo,
216–217

Cassin, René,
208

Cathedral of Notre Dame, in Boulogne,
133

Catlin, George,
174

cemeteries, vandalized by Nazis,
314

cemetery, at Sachsenhagen,
19
,
21–22
,
25–27
,
30–31

Central Office for Jewish Emigration,
77–78

Central Refugee Committee of Paris,
116–117
,
155

Centre National de Rassemblement de Israélites
(National Center for the Gathering of Jews),
221–222
,
264

Cezanne, Paul,
152
,
237

Chambon-sur-Lac,
171–172

Château de Vincennes,
272–273

Chaumont,
272

Chelmo extermination camp,
291

City of Light.
See
Paris

Civil Service Law (1933),
290

Clauberg, Dr. Carl,
289

Claudius,
133

Coast Guard, and
St. Louis
,
106
,
128

Comité d'Assistance aux Réfugiés
(CAR),
117
,
135
,
155

Contrexéville,
145
,
162
,
271–272

Côte d'Azure,
213

Cousi, G. R. (painter),
180

crematoriums,
292–294
,
302

Crystal Night.
See
Kristallnacht
(Night of Broken Glass)

Cuba,
79–82
,
127

cyanide, use in extermination camps,
293–294

Czechoslovakia, Munich Agreement and,
202

da Vinci, Leonardo,
180

Dachau concentration camp,
287
,
294

Daladier-Marchandeau ordinance of 1939,
185

Dali, Salvador,
214

Daumas, Eugène,
194

Dauphin, Irene,
207